<p>The&nbsp;Science Museum&nbsp;is a major museum on&nbsp;Exhibition Road&nbsp;in&nbsp;South Kensington, London. It was founded in 1857 and today is one of the city&#39;s major tourist attractions, attracting 3.3 million visitors annually.</p>

<p>Like other publicly funded national museums in the United Kingdom, the Science Museum does not charge visitors for admission&nbsp;but charges apply for the IMAX 3D Theatre, simulators and for some special exhibitions.</p>

<p>The Science Museum now holds a collection of over 300,000 items, including such famous items as&nbsp;Stephenson&#39;s Rocket,Puffing Billy&nbsp;(the oldest surviving steam locomotive), the first&nbsp;jet engine, a reconstruction of&nbsp;Francis Crick&nbsp;and James Watson&#39;s model of&nbsp;DNA, some of the earliest remaining&nbsp;steam engines, a working example of&nbsp;Charles Babbage&#39;s&nbsp;Difference engine, the first prototype of the 10,000-year&nbsp;Clock of the Long Now, and documentation of the first&nbsp;typewriter.</p>

<p>It also contains hundreds of interactive exhibits. A recent addition is the&nbsp;IMAX&nbsp;3D Cinema showing science and nature documentaries, most of them in&nbsp;3-D, and the&nbsp;Wellcome&nbsp;Wing which focuses on digital technology.</p>

<p>The museum houses some of the many objects collected by&nbsp;Henry Wellcome&nbsp;around a medical theme. The fourth floor exhibit is called &quot;Glimpses of Medical History&quot;, with reconstructions and&nbsp;dioramas&nbsp;of the history of practised medicine.</p>

<p>The fifth floor gallery is called &quot;Science and the Art of Medicine&quot;, with exhibits of medical instruments and practices from ancient days and from many countries. The collection is strong in clinical medicine, biosciences and public health.&nbsp;</p>

<p>The kids will love the place as there are plenty of hands on exhibits.&nbsp;Children will also love looking at historical pieces like the first computer game and a landline telephone!<br />
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